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You get there by giving back 40-50% to California. The more you give away, the more you earn :) Joke aside, 5 years of experience get you $300k total compensation per year at a hot…

In which part of the World are you located? A solution to get over your nightmare may be to move somewhere else where competition doesn't exist. Apply where the barriers of entry a…

Becoming an engineering manager is not an escape from coding. It’s the opposite. To get there you need to be a top performer, which involves being really good at coding and all the…

Just trying to figure out how people deal with over-thinking everything during an onsite interview. Despite being well prepared there's always the unknown part which throws you off…

Would you rather die alone in a closed room in front of your computer, or would you rather die in the hands of someone who loves you more than anything else? Life is all about comp…

What is your ultimate dream job? It could be anything you can think of: "VP of AI at Google in Mountain View", "Fisherman in the north pole", "President of the United States", "CEO…

back in the days, I was interviewing over the phone with the hiring manager of a large startup in SF. Basically doing live coding on a shared note pad. The guy started chatting wit…

It seems to be a lack of confidence or a miss understanding of the requirements. In other words, no one really understands what has to be done and how to do it properly. If you und…

I burnt out on coding a few years ago because of the painful development process in a professional environment. Dead lines, boring work, bug fixes, politics, micro management, etc.…

Since you generally don't mention your salary on your Resume, simply put it as a regular work experience. You may want to specify "full-time" versus "part-time" but it doesn't real…

Sure, by real faces I mean pitching your product to people directly. Not necessarily over the Internet but in person. This is a step that is often missed by a lot of tech people wa…

If you could achieve one single thing in 2019, what would that be?

This perk is a dangerous perk :) Some people love it some hate it.

This pretty much sums up everything. I had a similar problem trying to sell my products. If you're a solo founder learn how to sell first. Finding cool marketing strategies is grea…

Yes it is. As long as we'll have Websites on the Internet we'll need Web developers. It is a great place to be still. I used to do that then I got burnt out by the stack, which kee…

A few weird ones I've seen in Silicon Valley: - Bring your dog at the office - $20K credit to freeze your eggs (for women) - In-house bar with barista training for employees - Indo…

You can't say "always". This doesn't make sense either because it's on a case by case basis. You could have a simple product used by billions of people, which doesn't require many …

Now let's look at the ration billion-user-products versus the total number of products. That'll give you the ration of employees having a huge impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

You can innovate in many different areas. For example code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, sharing knowledge across the organization. It seems that Google as a pretty solid engineering c…

Reality is that most of the engineers at Google don't work on google search nor google map. They work on "smaller" projects that don't necessarily reach billions of users. It doesn…

Great advice from people here but I'm gonna try to provide as much value as I can on top of that. Read books, listen to others, get a mentor, blablabla. Do that for sure because it…

Other than the 20 percent free time, compensation and offices, the engineering culture at Google doesn’t seem to have anything special based on this well written pdf. It is in fact…

The only way to attract co-founders in SF is to create value. An idea and a Resume alone have no value. Build something and showcase it. You'll create real opportunities and you'll…

any question would be eligible for that. What if you don't spit out the exact answer your interviewer is excepting? Well, you're out.

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